 | History - 2003 - 260 pages
...framing the issue: "Immediate dissolution fof the Union] or blood." "So viewing the issue," he went on, "no choice was left but to call out the war power of the Government." Far more than any predecessor, he found presidential authority in the war power; "It was with the deepest... | |
 | Brian M. Thomsen - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 390 pages
...the earth. It forces us to ask: "Is there, in all republics, this inherent and fatal weakness?" "Must a government, of necessity, be too strong for the...for its destruction, by force for its preservation. It is now recommended that you give the legal means for making this contest a short and decisive one:... | |
 | Roger Milton Barrus - History - 2004 - 178 pages
...the earth. It forces us to ask: 'Is there, in all republics, this inherent and fatal weakness?' 'Must a government, of necessity, be too strong for the...people, or too weak to maintain its own existence?'" The argument of secessionists from Calhoun on—that states had a constitutional right to leave the... | |
 | Vivian R. Pollak - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 312 pages
...the earth. It forces us to ask: "Is there in all republics, this inherent, and fatal weakness?" "Must a government, of necessity, be too strong for the...of its own people, or too weak to maintain its own existence?"21 Can government maintain or grant such liberty to the individual as to fulfill its promise... | |
 | Walter C. Clemens - Political Science - 2004 - 772 pages
...US history, recalls the question posed by Abraham Lincoln on July 4, 1861: "Must a government . . . be too strong for the liberties of its own people, or too weak to maintain its own existence?" The Secretary of State notes that many Americans are indifferent to the ways in which others are governed.... | |
 | Peter Augustine Lawler, Robert Martin Schaefer - Political Science - 2005 - 444 pages
...the earth. It forces us to ask: "Is there, in all republics, this inherent, and fatal weakness? Must a government, of necessity, be too strong for the...for its destruction, by force, for its preservation. suspend the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus; or, in other words, to arrest, and detain, without... | |
 | Roger L. Ransom - Confederate States of America - 2005 - 376 pages
...the earth. It forces us to ask: "Is there, in all republics this inherent and fatal weakness?" "Must a government of necessity be too strong for the liberties...people, or too weak to maintain its own existence?" — Abraham Lincoln (July 4, 1861 ) JUST A FEW WEEKS before the first major engagement of the war took... | |
 | Daniel Kornstein - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 296 pages
...Congress in 1861, "forces us to ask: 'Is there, in all republics, this inherent and fatal weakness?' 'Must a Government, of necessity, be too strong for the...people, or too weak to maintain its own existence?'" tion and yet preserve the Constitution?"15 Relying on the war power, Lincoln seemed to be arguing that... | |
 | David Herbert Donald, Harold Holzer - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 462 pages
...upon the earth. It forces us to ask "is there in all Republics this inherent and fatal weakness?" Must a Government of necessity be too strong for the liberties...people, or too weak to maintain its own existence? 120 So viewing the issue, no choice was left but to call out the war power of the Government, and so... | |
 | Jeffrey Manber, Neil Dahlstrom - History - 2006 - 368 pages
...At stake was a fundamental question, one posed by Abraham Lincoln on the fourth of July, 1861, "Must a government, of necessity, be too strong for the...of its own people, or too weak to maintain its own existence?"30 Hodgson must have been fearful of even asking the question regarding the presidents involvement.... | |
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Must a government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its own people, or too weak to maintain its own existence? 
